Thursday, May 16, 2019

“The
sponsors of this bill believe that it is time, once again, for the U.S.
Supreme Court to revisit [Roe v. Wade], and
they believe that this act may bring about the best opportunity for
this to occur.” – Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on the state’s new abortion
ban.

Searchingforreason.net

Last night, Alabama
signed into law the most extreme abortion ban since Roe v. Wade,
which will outlaw abortion outright and imprison doctors for life.
Just this year, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, and Georgia have passed
six-week abortion bans—and it’s only May.

There’s a reason these
laws are so extreme. President Trump has emboldened anti-abortion
politicians in states across the country, from Alabama to
Massachusetts. They are spreading misinformation, they are directly
challenging Roe v. Wade, and they are attempting to end the
established, national right to safe, legal abortion.

We saw this coming on
Election Night in 2016. We saw this coming when the Senate confirmed
Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Here inMassachusetts,
we have a responsibility to blaze a trail forward—but we need your
help.

Access to abortion is at
risk across the country, and Massachusetts still has medically
unnecessary, ideological laws that block people from care or force them
to travel across state lines. In the face of these national attacks,
Massachusetts must remove these politically motivated restrictions,
once and for all.

Now more than ever, it’s time to show the rest of the
country what true leadership and true reproductive freedom look like.
The ROE Act is a bold statement that abortion is health care, and we will
not let anti-abortion extremists trample on our rights. But we need to
act.